From Atlas Shrugs:
Monday, March 05, 2012
VIDEO: ANDREW BREITBART'S SPEECH AT GROUND ZERO MOSQUE PROTEST ON SEPTEMBER 11
Here is a cleaned up copy of Andrew Breitbart's speech at our AFDI/SIOA Ground Zero mosque protest on September 11, 2010. So many on the right ran from this hot button issue for fear of incurring the media's wrath. Many big names cancelled on us. Cowardice. Not Breitbart. He always stood fast and firm no matter how hot it got. The hotter, the better for that man. His tragic passing should make you more fearless, more in their face.
Look for more of my thoughts on Breitbart in my column later this week in WND. And Robert Spencer has an excellent piece on this: Andrew Breitbart for the Offense in the American Thinker, where he discusses Andrew Breitbart's legacy:
...Andrew Breitbart was never defensive. He called the left out for its hypocrisy, its thuggery, its totalitarian impulses, its self-contradictions and inconsistency, its naked hatred. That's why they hated and feared him so.We should be hated and feared by the enemies of freedom. We should never bow to them, never apologize to them, never playthe game they want us to play. Their hate is a badge of honor. Their fury and abuse are signs of our effectiveness. The people on the right whom the left love most are those who gore their oxen the least. These soft conservatives don't dare upset politically correct pieties. They wouldn't dream of challenging our government and law enforcement officials to stop peddling soothing falsehoods about the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, or of calling the Muslim community in the U.S. to account for the 80% of mosques that teach jihad and hatred of infidels, and for the Muslim Brotherhood ties of major Islamic groups in this country. Instead, they peddle the same false narrative, spending their time retailing crowd-pleasing fictions about the vast majority of moderate Muslims who are proudly American and accept constitutional freedoms, and whose vocal and vociferous and active support for anti-terror measures is no doubt right around the corner.This is a false hope. Ten years after 9/11, and we are still waiting for this large cadre of moderate Muslims to begin fighting against their violent and supremacist coreligionists. And twenty years after 9/11, we will still be waiting.It is time to give up false hopes and stop playing defense against the Islamic supremacists and the left. That is Andrew Breitbart's lesson, and his legacy. May we all emulate him, and may his memory be eternal.
In the crowd there were families of those murdered at 9/11, military veterans, New Yorkers, and people who had travelled from around the country and from abroad.
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